Transformed Communities

“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also…

The Cost of Compassion

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). MAIN POINT: True greatness is measured by…

The Sabbath Heart

Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And Jesus said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox…

False Choices and True Love

And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent (Luke 14:3-4).…

When People Suddenly Appear

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was…

The Victory Is Sure

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the…

The Door Is Open to All Nations

“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall…

When You Can’t Hold On Anymore

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor…

Familiarity Is Not Faith

“When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door,…